VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 149 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 -35 +7
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 102 132 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.96% 1.45% 2.39%
As % of the System Software category 15.04% 15.38% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 72 90 177
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,300
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,125 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £40,000 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.36% -10.79%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £63,700 £55,250 £63,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% -3.27%

All System Software Skills
North of England

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 678 858 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.37% 9.44% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 508 523 1,078
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £62,833
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,200 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +2 49 £47,500 +26.67% 23
North West -11 30 £31,250 -21.88% 17
North East +10 23 £31,500 -12.50% 12
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (39.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (14.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.94%) Siemens NX
3 2 (1.96%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (69.61%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (64.71%) Azure
3 16 (15.69%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.71%) AWS
4 15 (14.71%) SaaS
5 9 (8.82%) Google Workspace
6 5 (4.90%) IaaS
6 5 (4.90%) PaaS
7 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 3 (2.94%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.98%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 43 (42.16%) Firewall
2 27 (26.47%) TCP/IP
3 24 (23.53%) VLAN
4 19 (18.63%) VPN
5 18 (17.65%) DHCP
5 18 (17.65%) DNS
6 16 (15.69%) WAN
7 12 (11.76%) LAN
7 12 (11.76%) SAN
8 9 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (8.82%) Wireless
9 6 (5.88%) Network Security
10 3 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.96%) MySQL
3 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.98%) JIRA
1 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Manufacturing
3 14 (13.73%) Advertising
4 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Legal
4 5 (4.90%) Retail
5 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.96%) Finance
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.98%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) IT Support
2 27 (26.47%) Support Engineer
3 24 (23.53%) Support Technician
4 21 (20.59%) IT Engineer
5 20 (19.61%) Technical Support
6 17 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
6 17 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
7 16 (15.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (13.73%) IT Technician
9 13 (12.75%) IT Support Technician
9 13 (12.75%) Senior
10 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Support Technician
10 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Technician
10 11 (10.78%) VMware Engineer
11 10 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (8.82%) Senior IT Technician
12 9 (8.82%) Senior Support Technician
12 9 (8.82%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.94%) Itk
2 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.96%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Driving Licence
2 14 (13.73%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.84%) Replication
5 6 (5.88%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.92%) NHS
7 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.98%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.98%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.98%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (59.80%) Windows
2 46 (45.10%) Windows Server
3 15 (14.71%) Windows 10
4 8 (7.84%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.86%) Android
5 7 (6.86%) Linux
6 3 (2.94%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.94%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.98%) CentOS
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) ITIL
2 26 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (24.51%) Customer Service
4 19 (18.63%) Project Delivery
5 12 (11.76%) Migration
5 12 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (9.80%) Knowledge Transfer
7 9 (8.82%) Customer-Centricity
7 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (6.86%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (6.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (6.86%) ERP
8 7 (6.86%) Mentoring
8 7 (6.86%) Service Management
9 6 (5.88%) Change Management
9 6 (5.88%) Server Management
10 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (4.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.53%) SQL
2 15 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.86%) PL/SQL
3 7 (6.86%) Python
3 7 (6.86%) VBScript
4 3 (2.94%) Tcl
5 2 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (9.80%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) HNC
6 3 (2.94%) HND
7 2 (1.96%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CCA
8 1 (0.98%) CCNA
8 1 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.98%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.94%) SLA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 67 (65.69%) Active Directory
2 64 (62.75%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.90%) vSphere
4 4 (3.92%) Docker
5 3 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.96%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) FortiGate
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.84%) Terraform
4 6 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.92%) Ansible
5 4 (3.92%) SCCM
6 3 (2.94%) Autotask
7 2 (1.96%) Grafana
8 1 (0.98%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.98%) Control-M
8 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.98%) Kibana
8 1 (0.98%) Nagios
8 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (100.00%) VMware
2 79 (77.45%) Microsoft
3 29 (28.43%) Veeam
4 11 (10.78%) Cisco
5 10 (9.80%) Google
6 9 (8.82%) SonicWALL
6 9 (8.82%) WatchGuard
7 6 (5.88%) Adobe
7 6 (5.88%) Dell
8 4 (3.92%) HP
8 4 (3.92%) Sage
9 3 (2.94%) Dell Compellent
9 3 (2.94%) ESET
9 3 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (2.94%) Siemens
10 2 (1.96%) Citrix
11 1 (0.98%) Apple
11 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.98%) Oracle
11 1 (0.98%) Red Hat